gui

\ɡi\

/\ɡi\/ noun

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The verdict

“gui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,335) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#21,335
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante verte hémiparasite et épiphyte à tiges articulées dichotomiques et à baies globuleuses qui croissent sur les branches de certains arbres, grâce à leur suçoir conique (ou haustorium) et dont ...

Corpus desk

Index FR-gui · gui · French

gui · rank #21,335 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,335
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH guignol

Nearest frequency peer: guignol (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gui »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « gui » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gui vs GW
0% similar
gui vs gx
33% similar
gui vs guy
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gui
PropertyValue
Headwordgui
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡi\
Letters3
Frequency rank#21,335
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gui »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).guise place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « guignol » (#21,336), « grimace » (#21,333), « géographiquement » (#21,337). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gui » est au #21,335. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for gui is neighbouring look-alikes ("GW", "gx", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡi\. Frequency #21,335 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Plante verte hémiparasite et épiphyte à tiges articulées dichotomiques et à baies globuleuses qui croissent sur les branches de certains arbres, grâce à leur suçoir conique (ou haustorium) et dont ...".

No generated misspelling entries exist for gui in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GW", "gx", "guy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gui, spelled G-U-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante verte hémiparasite et épiphyte à tiges articulées dichotomiques et à baies globuleuses qui croissent sur les branches de certains arbres, grâce à leur suçoir conique (ou haustorium) et dont les graines collantes sont disséminées par divers oiseaux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il faut avoir soin de les élaguer convenablement et de détruire le gui parasite qui les envahit fréquemment.
  2. Le plus étonnant est sans doute l'aisance avec laquelle saint Albert accepte les idées des anciens à propos de la transmutation des plantes. C'est ainsi qu'il considère le gui comme résultant de la transpiration de la sève de l'arbre qui le porte.

This word in other languages

mistletoe(English)muérdago(Español)Mistel(Deutsch)visco(Português)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gui"?
"gui" is spelled G-U-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡi\.
What does "gui" mean?
As a noun, "gui" means: Plante verte hémiparasite et épiphyte à tiges articulées dichotomiques et à baies globuleuses qui croissent sur les branches de certains arbres, grâce à leur suçoir conique (ou haustorium) et dont ...
What words are commonly confused with "gui"?
"gui" is commonly confused with "GW", "gx", "guy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gui"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gui" is \ɡi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gui" come from?
"gui" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gui", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

FLN#21,323kan#21,371lea#21,375mei#21,392

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list